GURPS Vampire Companion

GURPS Vampire Companion (also referred to as GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade Companion) is the companion volume for GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade. This sourcebook adapts material from the Vampire: The Masquerade books VTM: The Players Guide Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print! and the Players Guide to the Sabbat into Steve Jackson Games' roleplaying game GURPS.

Summary

From the back cover:

The Darkness Grows...
The dark screams of the living touch not your bitter soul.
You are torn between fealty to your elder masters and the surge of power within your young, vibrant blood.
The black dogs of the Sabbat are your sworn enemies... or they are your hidden leaders.
You are Kindred. You are Childe of the Damned.
There is great power in Undeath.
The GURPS Vampire Companion takes over where GURPS Vampire left off. Within these pages, you will find new Disciplines, advanced Disciplines for elder vampires, and all the new clans and bloodlines from the Vampire Player's Guide and the Player's Guide to the Sabbat, including an entire chapter on the diabolical Sabbat, their history, motivations and tactics.
Also included are new rules for elder vampires, including the mysterious Inconnu, plus new GURPS advantages and disadvantages to help players enhance and customize their GURPS Vampire characters.
And more... detailed rules for stalking and hunting, new conversion notes and four original adventure seeds to help spark unique GURPS Vampire campaigns.

Prologue

Document #10 (Pg. 5-6) (Mentions Taylor, who has been in all GURPS books prologues)

The Black Door (BBS that Vampires are using) (Pg. 7-9)

Introduction

About GURPS

1. Characters

This chapter gives the GURPS Vampire gamer a much broader palette with which to construct a unique Kinded character. GMs and players should note that several of the advantages and disadvantages presented herein are primarily found only in the Sabbat sect, and should be rare or nonexistent outside of the group.

Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills

Clarifications

New Advantages

Psionics

New Disadvantages

New Skills

2. Elder Vampires

Elder vampires are seldom seen and little known, but in many ways the whole Vampire campaign revolves around them. This chapter is intended to give the GM a bit more information which can be used to incorporate elders actively into his campaign.

Notes on converting elders described in White Wolf books into GURPS terms can be found in the Conversion chapter.

The Elder Campaign

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Golconda

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The Inconnu

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The Old Country Tzimisce

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Advanced Disciplines

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3. New Clans and Bloodlines

Traditionally, the race of Caine divides itself into 13 clans. Seven clans make up the Camarilla, two more form the cornerstone of the Sabbat, and the other four clans remain, by and large, independent of any one sect. Each of these clans is ancient and powerful in its own right, and neither of the great sects takes them lightly.

Sect Affiliation

Paths of Enlightenment

Bloodlines

4. The Sabbat

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The Pack

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The Creation Rites

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The Vinculum

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Strong Will and the Sabbat

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Sabbat History & Influence

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Sabbat Territory

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Sabbat Culture

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The Black Hand and the Inquisition

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The Sabbat Paths of Enlightenment

Sabbat Justice

Allies of the Sabbat

  • Wizard Society
  • Bone Gnawers
  • Voodoo Cult
  • Native American Shamanistic Societies: The Eyes of the Sun, The Penumbra of Gray Squirrels and the Path Finders.

The Clans of the Sabbat

5. Disciplines

This chapter details those Disciplines characteristic of the new clans and bloodlines described in this book. All of these disciplines are bought and used exactly as described in GURPS Vampire.

Mixing and Matching

6. Permutations

The society of the Cainites is ancient and Byzantine. It is not possible to record it in all its complexity in a single book, or even two. This chapter deals with some significant aspects of vampire existence which do not fit within any of the other sections of the two books which make up the GURPS Vampire game.

The Rite of Prestation

Numina

  • Psionics
  • Thaumaturgy
  • Faith

Mystical Items

  • Berserker Fang
  • Blazing Candle
  • Blood Pouch
  • Gangrel Eye
  • Inner Stone
  • Sire's Index Finger

Sample Mystical Items

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Tainted Vitae

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Putting the Bite On: Optional Combat Rues

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Adventure Seeds

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7. Conversions

The White Wolf Vampire books The Players Guide and The Players Guide to the Sabbat contain a wealth of new options for Vampire characters. This chapter contains notes on adapting these new options into GURPS terms.

Merits and Flaws

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New Abilities

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Backgrounds

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Personality Archetypes

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Converting New Clans

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Converting Elders

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Bibliography

White Wolf's Books

"Steve Jackson Games will publish two books adapting each of the five games of White Wolf Game Studio's Storyteller System to GURPS - Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Wraith and Changeling. As this book goes to press the first book of GURPS Werewolf by Bob Schroeck is out, GURPS Mage is in progress, and Wraith and Changeling are still in development at White Wolf."

  • The Vampire Players Guide, The Storytellers Handbook, The players Guide to the Sabbat, Storytellers Guide to the Sabbat, The Hunters Hunted and Masquerade (MET).

Clanbooks:

  • Brujah, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Toreador and The Anarch Cookbook: A Friendly Guide to Vampire Politics.

Adventures and Settings:

The World of Darkness:

  • A World of Darkness
  • Mummy

Sources of Inspiration

  • Inspirational Reading
  • Comic Books
  • Inspirational Viewing
  • Bad Vampire Movies
  • Television
  • Inspirational Listening
  • Mood Music

Index

Background Information

Memorable Quotes

Characters

  • "Hawkins" Hetepsekhemwy (Mummy) (Pg. 6)
  • Danton (Toreador) (Pg. 7)
  • Lord X (Ventrue) (Pg. 7)
  • Bad Acid (Malkavian) (Pg. 7)
  • Harley D. (Ravnos) (Pg. 7)
  • Tapeworm (Samedi) (Pg. 7)
  • Loa (Follower of Set) (Pg. 7)
  • Lucy (Tremere) (Pg. 7)
  • Blake (Tzimisce Sabbat) (Pg. 8)
  • White Queen (Toreador) (Pg. 9)
  • Kashta (Follower of Set Elder) (Pg. 138)
  • Orfis (Demon) (Pg. 139)

Steve Jackson Games Listing (Contains Errata)

References

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